Cooperation between VELMU programme and MSP Penina Blankett & - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Penina Blankett & Tiina Tihlman Ministry of the Environment HELCOM-VASAB meeting 10-11.5.2017 Stockholm, Sweden

Cooperation between VELMU programme and MSP

We need information on the marine biota from the entire planning area (and beyond) and this information must be linked with information of pressures!!

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~17.000 random

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points + 50.000 ”grid points”

VELMU plan 2012-2015

The solution in Finland -> The VELMU programme

VELMU statistics (2016)

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• 120 000+ observation points:
• 95 600 video points

– 23 200 dive line points (in 2000 dive lines)

• 1000+ benthos samples
• 2840 fish larvae samples

– 1800 Gulf-lines, 700 beach seine areas, 340 white board points

• 20 000+ km echosounding
• 784 geological samples
• 100 000+ underwater photos

VELMU map portal: Bladdre wrack (Fucsu spp.)

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Species

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Models

Model: Species occurence Protected Areas: e.g. HELCOM MPA & Natura 2000 Activities: Aquaculture, wind farms, etc.

From theory to practice: Kymmene regional plan

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Where to allow dredging and landfill?

Geographical distribution maps

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Green: Mytilus found Red: Mytilus not found

Photo: Parks & Wildlife Finland / H. Arponen Map: Markku Viitasalo/SYKE Blue mussel Mytilus trossulus

Biodiversity maps

Number of algal general

Map: Parks & Wildlife Finland / L. Kurvnen

VELMU 2

• VELMU 2 was launched in the beginning of this

year.

• One of the main aims of VELMU 2 is to disseminate

VELMU map service to end-users and promote the use of the map service as well as to develop a more end user friendly interface for it.

• This phase will also include inventories, but they

will be mainly focused on areas with e.g. deficit of data or endangered species or habitats as well as areas with high biodiversity.

• To achieve the goals of VELMU 2, the VELMU

coordination team together with the project group prepared a VELMU 2 Road Map 2017-2025 and invited MSP planners into the project team.

Photo: Parks and Wildlife Finland, Heidi Arponen, Selkämeri

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The Finnish Environment Institute will develop a Finnish Maritime Portal during the next two years. The portal will provide access to all available information on the marine area serving the needs of various stakeholders such as authorities, research and educational organizations etc. Maritime spatial planning will be a significant theme

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the portal. VELMU inventories will be a major source of information for spatial plans and the Maritime Portal will provide an access to VELMU inventories. Maritime spatial planning needs reliable spatial information among

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about marine species, communities and habitats, which VELMU caters for.

MSP in Finland

• The national legislation on maritime spatial planning came

into force in October 2016.

• According to it, three spatial plans will be drafted for

Finnish marine area by eight coastal regional councils.

• The Ministry of the Environment and the coastal regional

councils have started development of working processes as well as the form and content of the maritime spatial plans.

• To implement these tasks, a coordination group

representing the ministry and the coastal regional councils has established. Among other issues this group will collect the information needed for planning.

• For the development of the maritime planning process

and maritime spatial plans a network of all concerned parties will be established. The network will mainly communicate via internet but also have meetings.

• The plans will be drafted jointly by regional councils on

GIS based platform, which will be established as well. The Maritime Portal is tasked to support planning, possibly providing a platform for information source and as communication tool.

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Finnish Maritime Portal

Thank you for your attention!

Photo: Parks & Wildlife Finland, Mats Westerbom, Läntinen Suomenlahti

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